SUNY Stony Brook hosts Consortium on Thermal Spray

摘要

For the past eight years, the NSF-MRSEC Center for Thermal Spray Research at Stony Brook has been at the heart of a number of exciting and fundamental initiatives to enhance the scientific base of thermal spray coating technology. The Center welcomes industrial participation, from sharing in research results to funded programs in specific study areas. The goal is to create a mutually beneficial arrangement; students and faculty develop an industrially-relevant perspective and companies learn about cutting-edge fundamental research. Central to our outreach efforts is the Consortium on Thermal Spray Technology, initiated in April 2002. Currently the Consortium includes 16 leading thermal spray involved companies, from powder and equipment manufacturers to end-users. All members help to formulate the annual pre-competitive research goals, which are carried out by senior CTSR staff. The Consortium was founded on the premise that thermal spray technology offered a perfect platform for pre-competitive, collaborative research projects between end-users (OEMS), applicators, material and equipment developers, and leading research institutions. Through combined resources and expertise the group has tackled projects ranging in scope from plasma optimization and mapping of yttria stabilized zirconia ceramics to elastic/plastic properties of HVOF, APS, and VPS sprayed superalloy bond coats.